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REX SKY FORCE 3D + HiFi Active Sky. Gallery and Notes.

The fifth strength, a crucial one - the look and variabilty of clouds.

Flying around bad weather.

I have never seen something like this in P3D before.

Baby thunderstorms. Real weather by AS16, descent to Fuerteventura.

This is what I call a believable overcast. Until horizon.

A foggy sunset.

You can almost feel that moisture.

A cool sunset in REX Sky Force style.

Clouds are bigger with Sky Force. I should probably use a higher resolution than 512 DTX.

Clear skies and clouds on the horizon! REX 'VBlend' technology in play?

Dusk and dawn sky textures are on par with ENVTEX, if not better.

Well, they probably are better.

And this sun...

... that really shines ...

... a lot :)

Cloudy skies above LOWW. I look forward to be above them.

These massive clouds reaching high flight levels... fantastic!

Finally reaching the top of clouds. Almost...

We should set the weather radar, cap. FL350...

'Atmospheric depth' above French Riviera.

This is a better eye-candy than the dynamic lighting and without killing my 1080 Ti.

'Rolling' clouds?

If you don't see the progress from ASCA here, then save your money, this product is probably not for you.

REX SKY FORCE 3D is more a piece of art than a scientific wonder. It proves the fact that REX are artists, who make the most beautiful and immersive textures for FSX-based flight simulators.

Yes, the software was released with some 'cheap' bugs, but artists are sometimes a little bit scatterbrained, right? :)

Artists sometimes also like to exaggerate. SF is not a fully-featured, state-of-the-art weather solution. It is "just" an amazing texture engine, which fully replaces ASCA on my SSD.

Actually, I think that REX will never make the best weather engine. Why? Because that's a task for scientific brains - an asset of HiFi Simulation Technologies. At the same time, HiFi will never make the best looking textures. We can only hope that these two top developers will understand their strengths and weakness and cooperate, or at least not intentionally make their solutions incompatible.

As it states today, the winning combination for the atmospheric immersion in P3D4 is HiFi Active Sky + REX Sky Force, period.

On the shots above, you can see this combination in work. All the pictures are unedited and without any manual adjustments of weather or intentionally set weather scenarios.